Autonomous Landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Author

Amaral, T.G. ; Pires, V.F. ; Crisóstomo, M.M.

Author_Institution

EST, Polytech. Inst. of Setubal

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

28-30 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

530

Lastpage

536

Abstract

In this paper, the design and implementation of a real-time landing algorithm for an autonomous helicopter is presented. The helicopter uses an onboard acquisition system to obtain the GPS and the sonar data to update its landing parameters. To control the path during the land step a fuzzy logic controller located in the fixed station is used. This controller is included in a low level module of a hierarchical-based control structure. Experimental results from flight tests in the field are presented, demonstrating that this control algorithm is accurate and robust

Keywords

Global Positioning System; aircraft landing guidance; data acquisition; fuzzy control; helicopters; hierarchical systems; position control; remotely operated vehicles; GPS; autonomous landing; fuzzy logic controller; helicopter; onboard acquisition system; path control; real-time landing algorithm; sonar data; unmanned aerial vehicle; Aerospace control; Airplanes; Algorithm design and analysis; Fuzzy logic; Global Positioning System; Helicopters; Radio control; Real time systems; Robots; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, 2005 and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce, International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2504-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIMCA.2005.1631523

Filename

1631523